page_title: Ashton Gate railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ashton Gate railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Ashton Gate Platform.
context_page_description: Ashton Gate railway station was a railway station serving the Ashton Gate area of Bristol, England, which included Ashton Gate football ground, the home ground of Bristol City F.C.. It was located on the Portishead Railway.
  Recent proposals have been made for the station to reopen as part of the MetroWest project to improve rail transport in the Greater Bristol area.
context_section_description: The railway through Ashton Gate was opened on 18 April 1867 by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company, when services began on their line from the Bristol and Exeter Railway at Portishead Junction to a pier on the Severn Estuary at Portishead. The line was built as 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad-gauge, and was largely single track. The line was relaid as 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge between 24 and 27 January 1880, and in 1883 the line was double-tracked.
  Ashton Gate station was built after local football team Bristol City were promoted to the Football League First Division, then the top tier of English football. The station was opened to serve their home ground, Ashton Gate Stadium, which was situated nearby. The station opened for supporters on 15 September 1906, and to the general public on 1 October that year. In 1914 it was temporarily renamed "Exhibition Station" for the Bristol International Exhibition.
  The station was 8 miles 75 chains (14.4 km) from the line's terminus at Portishead, 2 miles 79 chains (4.8 km) from Bristol Temple Meads and 121 miles 30 chains (195.3 km) from the Great Western Railway's terminus at London Paddington.
  The station closed due to economies during the First World War. It then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board in 1964, then briefly reopened for traffic to the football ground until 1977, and temporarily re-opened in May 1984 to serve Mission England, a series of evangelical rallies by Billy Graham at the football ground.
caption: Station in 1962
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